Advantages: Very emotional and truthful book - with accounts, extra context and pictures Disadvantages: Can get very emotipanl and rather painful to read at times - the truth can hurt
I am currently studying history at A level and am very interested in the two world wars and have bought so many different information and text books with information on these wars. These have all been useful to not only my studies, but also in my own personal research and interest in the subject, one that is very emotional and important to me and the history of not only this country, but the whole world. However this book is very different and recounts the war as it was - it is basically a collection of diary extracts from hundreds of different people who were alive and involved in the war - either fighting on the front line or helping on the home front. This book is therefore far more truthful and revealing about the truth and is extremely emotional and shocking.
Forgotten voices of the great war: A history of ww1 in the words of men ...
Advantages: Down to earth and you'll recognise the songs! Disadvantages: Perhaps a little too simple and a little contrived.
all, 10 well known songs, (a lot of them with a Geordie connection) and Jimmy's "OK" voice giving them some very different interpretations.
Certainly Jimmy makes a great effort to cover many and varied styles within the ten songs and in general manages a pretty good job. In fact this for me is the only real problem with the album as sometimes it has a slightly contrived feel, as if they all sat down around a table with a list of song styles and tried to cover as many as possible.
Highlights of the album include a lovely Country and Western version of "Overjoyed", the Lindisfarne classic "Clear White Light" (probably the song most like its original), the big band sound of "Walking on the Moon" and the upbeat rock of "Once in a Lifetime"
Songs that don't quite do it for me are the a cappella of "Love me like a Rock" and the almost ...
Advantages: Personal accounts of the Great War capturing the emotions of the people who experienced it. Disadvantages: None
As the veterans of this conflict pass away so to does the living link, there are only two veterans who served in this conflict still alive and when they pass away this conflict will pass into history.
This book tells the events of the Great War in the words of the people who experienced it. In 1972 with the number of veterans decreasing the Imperial War museum set about interviewing ordinary men and women who had lived through the conflict. Veterans from Britain, Germany America, Australia and Canada were interviewed. It is these recordings that are used to tell the story of the Great War.
These are personal accounts of the war from individuals of many different backgrounds from officers, ordinary soldiers and people at home working in the factories producing munitions etc. Everyone's lives were effected in one way or another ...
